House!
Oh, House, how could I go for three months without you?
Stellar stuff last night, as even the short absences of Chase/Cameron/Forman didn’t hold the show back, because they just replaced them with the House/Wilson Comedy Hour, which is even better. We didn’t get enough Wilson last year, and it’s obvious by the gusto with which they dove into the “Guitar kidnapper” subplot (”Have you ever heard the sound that a guitar string makes when you turn it really, really slowly?”). Too many great lines from that bit of business alone to recap here, but other contenders for line of the night included “Don’t call the police or FBI. Or tell Cuddy.” and House’s smooth-talking of the cancer patient. And the actual Patient of the Week was a tricky one as well, as I was guessing that she had an affair with the other grieving boyfriend all the way up until the completely off-the-wall solution was presented. It’s a true story, which is the only way to explain how weird it is. But it proved that House doesn’t really need his team, he just needs Dr. Buffer, who can ask for consent forms like Cameron and guess that it might be lupus like Chase! I anxiously await Fellowship Survivor next week.
Heroes, which I finally got a chance to watch, was a good opener, but didn’t blow me away like the original pilot did. But then I guess it doesn’t have to anymore. The Mysterious Rogue Team Member stuff is always an easy sell in comic books, and I’m sure they’ll milk it for just as much here. Creepy Emo Kid can go fly off a bridge, but I suspect that since they’ve gone to great pains to avoid power duplications thus far, and we’ve seen Nathan already, then it might be Peter, using Candice’s powers to change his looks. However, it’s already been established that he’s Ultra Boy and can only use one at a time, so maybe it’s just some creepy Super Peeping Tom. I dunno who that would make the guy in the cargo hold with the Helix necklace, though.
Yeah, awesome episode last night. Wilson’s line about the guitar string was perfect and then he ACTUALLY MADE THE SOUND, and it was dead-on! Their “lunch-out” was great as well, as Wilson just rolled with the punches like a champ. Cuddy’s characterization of the ducklings to effectively prove her point about House’s need for a team was also great. I laughed pretty audibly at the “Forman would’ve done anything to prove you wrong, while Chase would’ve done anything to prove you right!”.
I love the ducklings, but they should push the inevitable reuniting of the team back as long as possible just to see House make it a huge game and eventually use everybody associated with the hospital to either bounce ideas off of or do his dirty work, then continue to claim he works fine alone.
Re: Heroes … whoever Peeping Tom Kid is, it probably isn’t Peter. He never interacted with Candice last season, so he wouldn’t have gotten the chance to mimic her powers. Neither, for that matter, did Sylar (and I’m not convinced it wasn’t *him* in that cargo hold).
Peeping Tom Boy’s power does mean, however, that unless Nathan had another lovechild, there’s duplicate power-sets out there. I wonder if Mohinder’s research has accounted for this while discovering the “plague” he mentioned during his speech.
I saw it as there is duplicate powers out there and Peter absorbed Nikki’s powers since he came into contact with her in the final scene of S1, which would explain the whole mirror thing. I’m a little confused as to why Peter hasn’t absorbed Hiro’s power yet.
And I don’t think that guy in cargo hold is Sylar either.
Supposedly there are going to be a couple of instances of duplicate powers this season.
As for Peter being Sylar.. I’d go more for the angle that Nathan is Sylar over that. In the “future” they stopped, remember Sylar replaced Nathan.
Huh?
You think Nathan is Peter, and Peter is Skylar?
I was confused by Nathan’s surviving, I thought he was dead for sure at the end of last season (and also, I didn’t remember seeing him in any clips). We did see Skylar, though.
Personally, I think Peter is Peter, Nathan is Nathan, and Skylar is out there. But I don’t know and I’m sure I’ll be surprised by whatever they come up with.
I’m also hoping next week’s House isn’t some weird dream episode, which it seems like it might be (with House “seeing things that aren’t there”).
Anyone catch the show Life on NBC? I kind of half-watched, it looks interesting. That god for DVR.
err.. what I meant was.
Peter is Peter. I was responding to Scott’s theory that the kid flying around the cheerleader was Peter in disguise.
Nathan could be Sylar, but is probably Nathan. (This being that in the future shown in last season, Sylar had taken over Nathan’s life.)
Oh and Hiro is the “Real” Kensei.
If you think about it close enough, you can discover what happened to every character from last season except maybe DL.
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What could keep Sylar’s corpse in place as he was dragged to the sewers without anyone noticing? An illusion that appeared like he was still there. Who controls illusions? Candice.
Peter is Peter. Nathan is Nathan. Peter absorbed only Nikki’s superstrength during the fight with Sylar, not the crazy sister thing, which might have just been a split personality, not anything powers-wise. He did meet someone with electricity powers since 4 months ago, though, as evidence by his response to the bad accents.
The real question is: who are the remaining 8 in the last generation? We know a few of them. Pa Patrelli is dead. Charles/Shaft is dead. Hiro’s dad is now dead. Linderman is dead. Ma Patrelli is obviously one. Is the creepy Alchemist Company guy? Is Claude? Since the season’s subtitle is Generations, do we have a few parents we haven’t met yet?
Does anyone else here watch Boston Legal? If so, what’d you think of last night’s episode?
I have a couple of questions for Scott. What do you think of the new Foo Fighters CD? I personally love it and I enjoy the fact they seem to evolve just a little bit more with every album.
Do you have an e-mail address you use just for the blog? I was thinking of submitting a cheap plug but I don’t know your e-mail and I wouldn’t want to clog up your proper e-mail with my stuff.
Thanks for reading!